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phrostbyte
December 27th, 2008, 08:30 PM
Here is a screenshot:

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2619/sspys3.th.png (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sspys3.png)

Here is a direct link (if they didn't fix it yet)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Feedback (http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Feedback)

But I think it's also effecting the entire site.

Prefix100
December 27th, 2008, 08:36 PM
lol msdn, what is that?

Eisenwinter
December 27th, 2008, 08:38 PM
MSDN is Microsoft Developer Network

phrostbyte
December 27th, 2008, 08:39 PM
lol msdn, what is that?

Microsoft Developer Network.

This seems to be a trivial flaw where the developers of the site forgot to sanitize JavaScript out of the input boxes. Or sometimes called an XSS flaw. I would that seems to be a fairly non-trivial oversight.

peter_brewer
December 27th, 2008, 08:41 PM
I thought it meant Microsoft Developer Network??

ajcham
December 27th, 2008, 08:50 PM
Here is a direct link (if they didn't fix it yet)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Feedback (http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Feedback)

But I think it's also effecting the entire site.

Seems so - the Channel 9 front page (http://channel9.msdn.com/) has had the blink css decoration applied to all text!

Kernel Sanders
December 27th, 2008, 08:51 PM
LOL! FAIL! :lolflag:

Dr Small
December 27th, 2008, 10:08 PM
They must have noticed a number of hits coming from Ubuntu Forums, and they fixed the problem :D